What’s New: October 2013

We’ve seen a steady stream of continued app updates and customer-requested features this month. SkyDrive Pro for iOS simplified viewing and editing your documents. Everyone can now join Lync mobile meetings, even those without Office 365 accounts. Admins can now purchase domains directly within the service and view Lync Online usage for their organization. Other October improvements include updates for developers, Office 365 Education customers, and Office 365 Government customers in California. Let us know your favorite new feature-leave a comment! If you missed last month’s updates, see September’s What’s new summary here.

Office 365 Home Premium & Office 365 University updates:

No updates

Office 365 for business updates*:

New Lync usage reports: See Lync use in your business with new reports that show active users, total video and audio minutes, and total time conferencing.

Office 365 for Government updates:

Office 365 for Business updates apply as well. Please note this update apples only to Office 365 for Government for qualifying U.S. government customers.

Office 365 Education updates:

Student Advantage: Office 365 Education institutions who have licensed Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for their faculty and staff may provide Office 365 ProPlus for students at no additional charge.

Office 365 for Business updates apply as well.

Developer updates:

Dev.office.com: The newly redesigned site has simplified and consolidated everything that experienced and aspiring Office developers could need.

Office.com Store improvements: The Office Store is adding support for 5 additional languages, 8 new store fronts, a Seller dashboard, and support for subscription-based apps.

–Andy O’Donald @andyodonald

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*Not all updates apply to every Office 365 plan; please check the individual post for specifics.

We are considering the move to Office365 E3 but one question I do not see addressed yet is the in-place encryption of files in Sky Drive Pro. I see it in the Exchange Online blogs, but no reference to it for SkyDrive Pro. I see info about using SSL to transfer files which is a great start, and I also see new references to rights management services which is great when sharing or sending files, but for banking, healthcare, financial industry people, in-place encryption is a big deal.
Is that something being addressed now, or is it planned for a future release?